Hot Fuzz
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| Directed by | Edgar Wright |
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| Cinematography | Jess Hall |
| Edited by | Chris Dickens |
| Music by | David Arnold |
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Running time | 121 minutes[2] |
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| Language | English |
| Budget | US$12–16 million[4][5] |
| Box office | $80.7 million[1] |
Hot Fuzz is a 2007 buddy cop action comedy film directed by Edgar Wright, who co-wrote the film with Simon Pegg. Pegg stars as Nicholas Angel, an elite London police officer, whose proficiency makes the rest of his team look bad, causing him to be re-assigned to a West Country village where a series of gruesome deaths takes place. Nick Frost stars alongside him as Police Constable Danny Butterman, Angel's partner.
Hot Fuzz is the second and most commercially successful film in the Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy, succeeding Shaun of the Dead and followed by The World's End. Over 100 action films were used as inspiration for the script.
Principal photography took place in Wells, Somerset, for eleven weeks and ten artists worked on VFX, which involved explosions, gory gunfire scenes and a flip book. Released on 16 February 2007 in the United Kingdom and 20 April in the United States, Hot Fuzz received acclaim from critics and grossed US$80 million worldwide on a budget of $12–16 million. In 2020, Empire named it the 67th-greatest film of the 21st century.[6]
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- ^ a b c "Hot Fuzz (2007)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 3 August 2017. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
- ^ Collins, Andrew (19 July 2013). "Simon Pegg: The World's End is $4 million shy of double what Hot Fuzz cost". Radio Times. Archived from the original on 3 August 2017.
- ^ "Hot Fuzz Financial Information". The Numbers. Nash Information Services, LLC. Archived from the original on 20 April 2019. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
- ^ "The 100 Greatest Movies Of The 21st Century: 70 - 61". Empire. 23 January 2020. Retrieved 1 April 2021.